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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 23 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 12,1986 yugoslavs enact urgent measures  in Tivi api fim time to break in the protests Aad afternoon As the unrest continued the Way to the to Grad , Yugoslavia communist authorities in the Southern Republic of Montenegro proclaimed urgent measures in the capital monday in the acc of unrest that continued despite a warning from the Federal president. Street protests fuelled by economic woes and ethnic tension have swept much of Southern and Eastern Yugoslavia in recent weeks. Tension escalated Over the weekend however As police used violence for the first Lim t pan students and workers in Montenegro hailed in Calls to oust local communist u Raif Dizdarevic went on National television sunday night to Appeal for Calm warning of unspecified Emer gency measures of the unrest did not cease. Montenegro s  huddled in emergency sc5sion"huhc re Public s capital of tit Grad on afternoon stale news Agency Tan Jug said. Workers and 2,000 students in the montenegrin town of Niksic 30 Miles North of tit Grad rallied outside a local. Government building and in a steel Mill where 2,800 workers were on strike for a second Day Tan Jug said their anger was fuelled by pol tee who used clubs and tear Gas during the week end to break up crowds in tit Grad and marchers in Niksic who were on their by to the Tuo Grad rally that ratty amounted to an explosion of worker and student anger at economic a Anthipy imposed by an austerity prob a enacted in May to try to curb a 121 billion foreign Debl and bring Down inflation which is at 217 percent the National government meanwhile announced it was rescinding a 28.5 per cent boost in electricity prices announced oct. 1. It would have been the fourth increase in electricity Bills Thi year. News briefs czech Slovjak premiers resign their positions Prague Coccho Ovakian a Czecho slovak Premier Bubo lir Strougal who headed the Federal Goemmer i for More than 18 years and slovak Premier Peter Colotka resigned monday the stale new i Agency ctr. Reported. The announcement was made by communist party chief Milos Jak s in a speech at a plenary session of the parly s i ventral committee. He said the resign anon were accepted. Strougal believed to be the longest serving Premier in Europe it placed old Rich Cernik in january 1970. F Colotka has sent May 1969 and As cd since september i9f_. The shake up in Czechoslovakia follows Simi Lar government reorganizations in the soviet Union Hungary and Poland. Christian i Tiamen kill As slovak Premier sin czechoslovak Deputy Premier 2 guerrillas Jerusalem asian militiamen killed gun attic in Southern de. It did not say Hogue Rillas belonged. Meanwhile Leban Salim Hoss said that sectarian subs ales we Between christians an in his comments ving to a statement b the lebanese forces that a Federal system to end the deadlock and Lebanon s 13-Yea former president Christian military i Michel Aoun in sept Lebanon israeli backed Christ o guerrillas monday in abandon the army report ver to what group the acting prime  Lebanon into d trigger Long term wars moslem nday Hoss was respond Samir Geagea Leader of c main Christian militia As the Only practical Way or presidential elections Livi War. In Gemayel appointed a eminent led by Gen. Bar at the end of his six-iv1ia.liii Fluur in left Wip in Kun i year presidential term. However Hoss govern ment refused to resign. He is challenging the legitimacy of the new government. 33 die 15 Hurt in crash at yugoslav train station Belgrade aug Slavia a two cars of an express passenger rain derailed and slammed into a parked freight Irain at a station killing at least 33 people and i luring 15, the state Tanju news Agency Repinec monday. A passenger was q noted As saying the express train entered the Stati in in Eastern Yugoslavia thigh Speed then Slan med on its brakes. But the new Agency said the Driver obeyed All signals while entering the Sta Ion. The crash occurred at 7 20 . Sunday Inlap ovo 50 Miles Smth of Belgrade. Rescue teams worked through the night to reach the victims using blow torches to Cut through the derailed coaches Tai Jug said. The train was Irav Ling from the Southern Cit of Skopje to Bilgri be when its last two care jumped off the rail at the Lapovok station and rammed into an Enfa it of a parked freight Tram Tan Jug  government f Serbia monday asked fed eral authorities to p claim wednesday a Day of National mourning for the victims but there was no immediate word on whether the request was approved. Eiffel Tower of Tail closed by strike Paris a the Eiffel Tower  to visitors for the third Day monday As  most famous attraction continued their Santa for higher wages a meeting sunday Between management and personnel failed to produce a breakthrough. Another meeting was scheduled for late monday afternoon. In the face of management s toughening position we arc prepared to continue our action strikers said. Workers Are demanding a two franc increase in their hourly pay of 29.04 francs about $4.60inclusion of bonuses in their salaries and changes in work sched  operators and Cashiers at the 1,056-fool Ligh tourist attraction walked off the Job saturday vowing to keep the lower closed until heir demands Fiul the management of the Eiffel Tower which is the property of the City of Paris said it has  tourists amounting to More than 195,000 since the strike started saturday. Security from Page 1 takes great Delight from the hysteria and the expense surrounding the Security of mrs. Thatcher and the to Ries at their Brighton  the British Leader and the Ira remain pledged to wiping each other out Thatcher is Britain s longest continuously serving prime minister in this Century while the Ira s Campaignio drive Britain out of Northern Ireland has become one of the longest on and of wars of he Century so far this year 81 people have been killed i Northern Ireland compared with 93 in 1987, and a new Ira Campaign against British servicemen has Cost five lives in England and on the continent. What has changed irrevocably is the atmosphere of British political party conventions since the bomb ripped through the eight Story grand hotel in the South England resort. Five people were killed and 30 were injured but Thatcher emerged unhurt having left the. Bathroom of her suite two minutes before falling masonry demolished it today we were unlucky the Ira said in statement at the time. But remember we have Only to be Lucky Onee you will always have to be  terrorism will never win Thatcher replied. Until the bombing tory party conventions were relaxed affairs. Reporters delegates lobbyists and bystanders rubbed shoulders with Cabinet ministers i lobbies and bars. Guards at the entrances merely glanced at identity badges. This time however More than 2,000 police have been mobilized to provide  mail boxes and sewers around the Homeland the adjacent conference Center Are sealed off Over nights by civil aircraft Are banned and a Royal Navy destroyer patrols offshore in a $2.6 million operation code named Radcot bomb experts and dogs have scoured the grand hotel where Thatcher and Many of her 22-member Cabine Tare slaying during the four Day convention. Police have checked More than 50,000 Brighton hotel guests staff and  assess the level of risk quite clearly As very High said Sussex county chief Constable Roger Birch. But Richard Ingrams a columnist for the Liberal observer newspaper wrote this expensive farce i a great tribute to the  he said the Security Mea sures were so extreme and so alien to our Way of life that it is Worth wondering whether in fact terrorism has not already  Ira statement recalled that Thatcher was say ing seven years ago that the Ira was finished and added the British Public can now judge for them selves How Safe their prime minister feel when the has to surround herself with the Royal Navy the Royal air Force the special air services the special boat serv ice the British army and a police  1984 bomb attack killed lawmaker sir Anthony Berry Lancashire tory area director Eric Taylor Jea Shattock wife of another regional official Roberta Wakeham wife of the parliamentary chief whip an Muriel Maclean wife of the president of the scottish conservative  also indirectly Cost Thatcher one of her closest Cabinet allies Norman Tebbel who was forced to quit Active politics and go into business in order to pay for the care of his wife Margaret who was paralysed for life by the explosion. Patrick Mage an Ira member serving a life sentence planted the 20 to 30-Pound bomb behind the Wall panels of a bedroom four floors above Thatcher s  had checked into the grand hotel under a false name a month before the convention and was traced after police painstakingly combed the hotel s Register and questioned hundreds of previous guests. Thatcher who turn s 63 on thursday was elected in1979 and won an unprecedented third consecutive term last year.,.unlike the opposition labor party which ended its convention last week deeply divided Over How to re verse its repeated defeats the tories appear to be More United than Ever before. Reforms from Page 1 Mai cd Oil comely Lens after the Day s  observe feared that a combination of the ultimatum Given by the movement for algerian re Newal for the government to resign which was to expire tuesday and funerals for the victims of the army s gunfire might become a volatile mix. Band Jedi hinted he might step Down at the end of his second five year term next year. It had been widely expected that the Congress of the ruling National liberation front would Amend the Constitution to Pencil him to be nominated for a third term. As the sole Bend Edid Viiu Vicic Uius w Uia a wer the death of presi Dent Houari Boum Dienne. My duly imposed it on me in the interests of the nation., this should not be taken for the opening of an electoral Campaign since i am respectful of he  said he swore to respect the popular will and to facilitate the Rise of Young people to the  these changes must take place calmly he said. Bend Edid has been the main advocate of a eco nomic austerity program aimed at forcing Algeria to live within its Means in the fact of falling Oil and Gas prices. Oil and Gas constitute 97 percent of Algeria Export  the austerity program prices of Many for Merly subsidized food Staples have risen 40 percent since january. A combination of rapidly rising paces and shortages have led to widespread disc inclement. The unrest Bejan about two weeks ago with a Senes of strikes demanding higher wages to keep up wit inflation when the government said it would not diverge from its austerity program to raise pay youth began rioting in Algiers and other cities. A stale of emergency was declared thursday and a 10 .-to-5 . Curfew installed  
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